Protesters return to Irans streets following Friday prayers

In Iran, tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Tehran once again on Friday. They called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to resign and were met by police and militiamen who fired tear gas.

At Friday prayers, one of the countrys top religious leaders Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, himself a former president — voiced new doubts about the results of the recent presidential election, which returned Ahmadinejad to power. He said those doubts are now consuming us.

Ervand Abrahamian, a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the current situation in Iran and a shakeup in the countrys nuclear program.

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[ananogeo]

He's the best professor

[DourCynic1]

You know Iran reminds me of this regime from the 30s & 40s i cant remember.... A dictator stole power by creating a fiasco & disregarding the states constitution. When the people protested he had them either jailed or killed by his government police. Meanwhile Chamberlin & Roosevelt hoped for peace & wanted to avoid a "Wahr" of course that changed after europeans began getting liquidated en mass. Oh yeah I remember now! it was the National Socalist Workers Party! you now the Nazi's, The SA & SS

[EmeterioBetances]

Barack Obama has been in power for a while and has started a new war in Afghan. Which came be twice as worse as Iraq and he continues to pay out billions in U.S. tax dollars to so called "Democracy Promoting" org. which try to influence and topple gov't that don't do the Empires wishes. They don't open there markets up to U.S. capital and it not about Democracy promoting did they Democracy promote in Iran when the toppled there elected democratic leader?

[EmeterioBetances]

The difference bt the struggles for Demcracy is obvious. One deals with a military coup which was trained by the U.S. in its famous school of the Americas. You see they don't really do real hard investigative work on CNN. There purpose is not to inform you to keep you oblivious to U.S. Imperialism and destruction around the world. They are owned by Corporate FAT Kats. The "Green Revolution" is no different that the Islamic Revolution one is just a little more friendler to the U.S. Interest .

[EmeterioBetances]

Look how News Media report about the Situation in Iran. But in Honduras where millions have protested and crimes, assinations and human rights have taken place. Not one of the U.S. Human Rights watch "dogs" have denounced the Honduras Coup. CNN ESPANOL & In English don't mention anything. They talk about what Barack Obama Pants look like. Our news media networks are a bunch of gossip and ideologically driven. They give millions of viewers propaganda and this my friends is the only way to tell !